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...paper, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for United Nations ambassador has much in common with another boundary-breaking, African-American, Stanford-affiliated, female foreign policy expert with the same surname. But the similarities with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice end there. Susan Rice brings to the U.N. job a career devotion to African affairs and eight years of experience in the Clinton administration...
...Washington, D.C. native and the first African-American woman named as U.S. ambassador...
...before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed one of the sharpest, coolest reports ever filed under the pressure of deadline and desperation...
...police woes should also prompt the U.S. to take its own culpability for Mexico's narco-calamity more seriously. Even U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza this week took issue with Washington's complacency about curbing gringo demand for cocaine and the smuggling of Yanqui guns to Mexican drug gangs. "The truth is, Mexico would not be at the center of cartel activity, or be experiencing this level of violence," Garza said in San Antonio, "were the U.S. not the largest consumer of illicit drugs and the main supplier of weapons to cartels...
...story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience...